"1980 Summer Olympics in Philately"

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The Moscow Olympiad in philately is one of the subdivisions of such a field of thematic collecting of postage signs and stamps as the Olympic philately. The objects of collecting within this topic are philatelic materials dedicated to the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow, their history, Olympic symbols and rituals, the program of the games, Olympic athletes and their sports achievements or related to them.

Issues of the USSR
To popularize the Olympics-80 throughout the USSR, the Organizing Committee of the Games, together with the Ministry of Communications of the USSR, approved a plan to issue Olympic postage stamps and postage blocks for the period 1976-1980, which included 73 postage stamps and 6 postage blocks: three stamps and one postal block in the series "Olympic Symbols", 40 stamps and 5 postal blocks depicting Olympic sports and 30 stamps in the series "Tourism under the sign of Olympic rings". It was planned to produce 229.9 million copies for 64 million rubles, in reality it was released for 6.5 million marks and 3 million rubles more. Stamps and blocks were issued with a 50% markup.

List of commemorative stamps of the USSR

The order of the elements in the table corresponds to the number according to the official catalog of stamps of the USSR, in parentheses the numbers according to the catalog "Mikhel".

Many other philatelic materials were published in the Soviet Union, the theme of which was devoted to the Moscow Olympics. The Ministry of Communications of the USSR issued 7.8 million envelopes of 50 items, 7.8 million postcards of 13 items, 5.2 million envelopes of the first day of 56 items, 70 thousand postcards with the original stamp of 14 items.

Soviet postage stamps dedicated to the Olympics-80 were included in the exposition of philatelic exhibitions held from 1977 to 1980. At the international exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1978, special cancellation of Soviet stamps was carried out, and Valery Borzov and Lyudmila Turishcheva put autographs on envelopes. The international philatelic exhibition in Essen in 1978 was attended by Lev Yashin, Boris Mayorov and Alexander Zaitsev, who spoke about the preparation for the Olympics, the development of sports in the USSR and the international ties of Soviet athletes.

Issues of other countries
The topic of the Moscow Olympics was opened by the Austrian postal service, which issued an envelope and a stamp dedicated to the 75th session of the IOC, held in Vienna on October 22, 1974. It was there that Moscow was chosen as the capital of the Games of the XXII Olympics in 1980.

In 1976, Bolivia and Paraguay issued a toothless postal unit and two postal blocks that featured the IOC Session 75 emblem.

On March 15-23, 1980, the II Philatelic Exhibition dedicated to sports was held in Madrid. It showed blocks where the logos of the 1980 Summer and Winter Olympics were printed on top in the corner.

By the beginning of the Olympics, many countries issued their own stamps and blocks. Among them: Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Afghanistan, Belize, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Upper Volta, Guinea, Zambia, India, Iraq, Spain, Cameroon, Cyprus, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cote d'Ivoire, Yemen, Zambia